Alabama receives shoutout at the Academy A!

Written By Robin Wade

Alabama receives shoutout at the Academy A!Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images.

Alabama receives shoutout at the Academy A!

The Help was another amazingly wonderful story.  A story that really isn't talked about much down here in the deep South.  But one that so needs to be.  I didn't watch last night, but what a great surprise driving in to work this morning, listening to OUR OWN Octavia Spencer on NPR this morning who won a sooo well deserved best supporting actress award. 

LOVED her (obviously from the heart, and not at all rehearsed) shoutout to Alabama. 

Here's how it went:

“Thank you, Academy, for putting me with the hottest guy in the room,” Then she thanks the state of Alabama, her family, her “Help” family. “I’m wrapping up, I’m sorry, I’m freaking out.”

Alabama receives shoutout at the Academy A!

 

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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